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.1. E.. R. FOX,

AUTOMOBILE LOCK.

APPUCATION 'FILED DEC. 2, 1915.

Patented; Aug. 8, H115,

JOHN E. R. FOX, OF HILAIELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

Specication of letters atent.

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.Patented Ano: S', 1916.

Application filed December 5E, lele?. Serial No. 54,627.

and State of Pennsylvania, have invendl certain new and useful improvements n3. Automobile-Locks, of which the ellewing is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in automobile locks, the object of the invention being to provide a locking device which holds the clutch foot lever against movement, and also secures the steering' wheel against turning, movement.

Heretofore, various forms of loch: have been devised which prevent the operation of the engine or the clutch lever, but sueh mechanisms do not prevent the turning or the steering,` Wheel so that 'the machine may lbe towed without being '.inloch is the purpose of my improved t vide a lock which not only 'prevents operation of the` clutch, but also prevents movement of .the steering' wheel, vfhich would make it practically impossible to tow the machine.

lVith these and other objects in vies', the :invention consi. ts in certain novel 'features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts as will be more fuily hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

in the accompanying drawings: Figure i. is a` perspective view illustrating' my in?.n proved device in operative position, and Fife. 2 is a perspective View of the wheel engaging portion on an enlarged scale illnstrating in full lines the twin shackles in locked position, and in dotted lines in open position.

l represents an automobile having the or dinar-y foot lever Z for operating` the clutch, and having the ordinary steering wheel 3.

My improved locking device comprises a' rod'having one end bent forming; a laterally projecting hook 5,' to engage around the foot lever 2 back of the foot rest (S. The other end of rod l is secured to a block 7 and this block is provided with twin shaclzies S, 8, which are pivotally connected to the bloeit 7 by a pin 9, and at their -iree ends are adapted to be secured by a lock l0. The

shackles 8, at their pivoted ends, are loeated recesses .il in, the block, and their free ends are ada ted to move 4into recesses l2 in the opposite ends of the block, By thus constructing the block with its recesses 11 and "i2- to accommodate both ends of the shackles,

'l shackles are heid against any possi- "v et lateral movement when they are i in :nosed position.

operation, the shackles engage the 'ing' 'wheel at oppositesides of a spoke z, so that the block cannot be moved around the steering wheel, and the steering fio vrieei cannot be turned because therod et is or a length just sutlicient to extend from' t lever to the steering wheel. l

oot will that the laterally projecting hook nl, shackles 8 are released fromthe hence when the ,shackles are seed. 'the entire y"device" is held i. uit,

son with the necessary key.

Yariens slight changes might be made in i rorin and arrangement of parts Without departing: from my ini'i. and4 lience do not limit myself to the precise details set forth. but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as Jfairly fall-within'the spirit and scape of the appended claims.

' be disengaged from the foot lever.`

be noted, particularly by reference :fal

renuival by any except the authorized Having; thus described my invention, what v at is:

vice of the character described.,

.uprising ber having' a hook at one adi., 'ed to .gage a lever, and having its o'tlier end ladapted to rh wheel at opposite sides of a spoke thereof, substartially as described.

2. A. device of the character described, comprising a rod having a. hook at one end adapted to engage a lever, a block fixed to the other end of the rod, and twin shackles carried by the block and adapted to engage a steering wheel at opposite sides of a spoke thereof, substantially as described.

3. device of the character described, comprising a red having a laterally projecthooi: at one end, and a block at its other end, said biock having a pair of recesses in .its opposite ends, a pair of shacides pivoti claim as new and desire to secure by. Letlly secured in the recesses at one 'end-f'the name to this speccatoi in the p'esence of f block and at their free ends movable into the two subscribing witnesses.

recesses'at the other end of the block, and J8EE E R' @Ku 'Y a lock carried by the block and adapted to 5 lock the fre ends of the shackles, substan- WVitnesses;

tially as described. Mmm; JACKSUN.;

In testlmony whereof I have, signed my S. W. Fos-Tm. 

